News archive from 19 October 2013

St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) - Hanley Ramirez was scratched from the Los Angeles Dodgers' lineup prior to the start of the team's Game 6 matchup with the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series.
Ramirez was hit in the ribs...

Friends and family aside, another entity with close ties to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been targeted by the feds: his bank.
The federal government today fined First Independence Bank in Detroit $250,000 for failing to properly check for...

LANSING - A top adviser to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder whose $100,000-a-year salary was covered by a nonprofit fund now will be paid by the state.
The Republican governor's office said that Rich Baird will also get a raise, with his pay now $140,000...

LANSING - Gov. Rick Snyder has ordered that U.S. flags on all state buildings and within the state Capitol complex be lowered to half-staff in honor of a western Michigan fire chief who died this week.
John Allison was chief of the Custer fire...

&#x201C;Mira Corpora,&#x201D; the debut novel by Charlotte-based playwright Jeff Jackson, brings to mind a description Alfred Hitchcock once applied to surrealism. In an article titled &#x201C;Why I'm Afraid Of The Dark,&#x201D;...

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Oregon State's Sean Mannion is headed home this week, even if it is for a brief stop to say hello to friends and family.
Mannion, the Beavers' junior quarterback who leads the country in passing, grew up in Northern California...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- What's brewing with the 2013 Ohio State Buckeyes ...
BUCKEYES BUZZ: Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz spent six years as an offensive line coach with the Cleveland Browns and, when the franchise was moved by owner Art Modell, the...

A new house with one of the best views in the city, overlooking White Rock Lake and the skyline, is a real traffic-stopper and it’s not even completed.
The house, on Peavy Road near Buckner Boulevard, appears to have shipping containers stacked one on...

CHAPEL HILL At the end of a confounding loss, the greatest question that surrounded North Carolina focused on its most confounding play: With three timeouts and with less than six minutes to play, how could the Tar Heels, inches from a first down,...

MADISON, Wis. -- WPS Health Insurance says it will eliminate 175 jobs over the next year.
The company said in a statement Friday the cuts stem mostly from the end of a state insurance plan for high-risk patients, which WPS has administered.
The Health...

As much as Clemson coach Dabo Swinney or Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher would love to, there's really no way to downplay a game between teams ranked in the top 5.
So neither coach has tried to avoid the hype for Saturday night's game (8 p.m., ABC)...

Maybe you noticed, maybe you didn’t. During the radio broadcast of the Cowboys victory over Washington on Sunday night, Brad Sham tried his best to avoid referencing, “the Redskins.”
By his own count, the “voice of the Cowboys” slipped only once.
“It...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. and Romania have reached an agreement to allow American troops and cargo to use the Black Sea air base of Mihail Kogalniceanu as a transport hub as they move in and out of Afghanistan.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel finalized the...

In his eighth year as the analyst on CBS’ college football coverage, Gary Danielson is getting to know College Station. Saturday will be his second visit to the Texas A&M campus this season. He worked the Alabama game and he’ll work alongside...

NEW YORK -- For the Heat, the most important and meaningful thing to happen at Barclays Center on Thursday night was neither a preseason loss to the Nets, nor hard fouls by Paul Pierce on LeBron James.
No, the Heat didn't start to care until after the...